Senior Field Director for May Day Strong

Core responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain relationships with community and labor partners in assigned geographies, including identifying anchor organizations convening May Day Strong aligned tables
• Coordinate with working groups to ensure local implementation of key 2026 strategies including strike schools with strong labor and community involvement, 4-6 big national actions, campaigns directed at key corporate and billionaire bad actors, and strategic policy campaigns
• Share landscape analysis, assessment of alignment and readiness, and support needs of assigned geographies with Steering Committee and Executive Committee on an ongoing basis
• Coordinate MDS representation to assigned geographies to support alignment building, strike and solidarity schools, and actions

This role helps build community-labor power to stop the country's slide towards authoritarianism and create a society that puts people over billionaires, working toward a more racially and economically just society.

Required qualifications:

• At least 12 years of experience organizing for social change, including at least 5 years working in state and/or local community-labor partnerships
• Deep and demonstrated commitment to anti-racist practices and a successful track record of establishing credibility and trust with a predominantly women of color staff
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in politically sensitive and high-pressure environments
• Knowledge of legal constraints of 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) nonprofits

Salary range: $138,000 to $141,300 annually. Position includes excellent benefits. Location is flexible within the contiguous United States.

The Action Center on Race and the Economy (ACRE) and ACRE Institute drive campaigns that seek to create a more racially and economically just society that values people over profit and supports the full inclusion and leadership of Black, brown, and poor people in our democracy and economy.